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TAGK PA-SI'BNED BUTTON. NO. 576,759. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, vASSIGNORTO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TACK-FA-ST'EN ED BOUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming partrof Letters Patent No.. 576,759, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed october 1,1895. serai No. 564,292. da model.)

T all whom, it wtay concer/t:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUs R. Hr DE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tack-Fastened Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of but- Io tons in which the button-head is secured to the fabric or garment by means of a tack, the point of which is upset within or in connection with the said button-head.

The special object of the invention is to I5 provide a simple, strong, and sightly button of that particular class of tack-fastened buttons which are known as open-faced77 buttons or one-piece buttons and in which the upset end of the tack is exposed in the facezo of the button, although, as will appear later on, the invention is applicable to closed-face buttons.

The invention consists, in its most restricted form, of a one-piece button-head having a perz 5 forated hub or shank depressed from the center of the button-head and having its bottom around the perforation raised or countersunk from the back faceward, combined with a self-entering or pointed tack or tack-like fastening adapted to make a hole for itself in the fabric to which the button is to be applied and to enter the button-head and having a shouldered shank, the shoulder being arranged below the self-entering point of the 3 5 tack and being adapted to lit into and be arrested by the counters unk portion of the hub, the point of the tack extending into the button-head and being upset therein against the inner portion of the countersink, whereby 4o the button-head will be firmly and squarely secured between said shoulder and the upset point of the tack and thereby a sightlylinish be made.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated and in which all of the views illustrate an open-faced button, Figure l is a plan view of the but-ton attached to a piece of cloth, and Fig. 2 is a 5o side elevation showing the cloth in section. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Figs. l and l 2. Fig. 4t is a longitudinal section showing the tack entering into the button-head, but not upset. Fig. 5 is a cross-sect-ion of the button-head alone, and Fig. 6 is a side eleva- 55 tion of the tack or fastening.

Describing now a 'pref erred form of my invention and as illustrated in the drawings, but without thereby limiting my invention thereto, a may represent the button-head, in 6o this instance shown as composed of the face having the concentric bright rims b c, with the interposed checkered eld d, andthe central depressed hub or shank e., all made of a single piece of any suitable metal. Heretofore it has been common to make these onepiece buttons with the curvature of the hub continuous, but I have discovered that byproviding the hub with a central faceward countersink f, surrounding the perforation 7o therein, for the passage of the tack or fastening a much better union of the button-head with the fastening may be effected, and accordingly I have surrounded the tack opening or perforation g of the button-head with the raised portion hereinbefore designated as the faceward countersink f.

The tack herein shown is composed of the base h, in which is fastened the shank i by its root. This shank'is shown as composed 8o of the two cylindrical portions 1l' i2 and the tapering point t3, a shoulder 4 being formed on the line of division between the two cylindrical portions t" t2. The tack is provided with a cover j, of bright metal, or cloth, or other substance o'r material, as may be desired. Any other form of tack or fastening may be employed in connection with this button-head, the essence of this invention, so far as the fastening is concerned, being a tack 9o having a shouldered shank, which shank cooperates with the countersink in the base of the hub of the button for perfecting the union of the head of the button and the fastening when the point of the fastening is upset within the button; and it is optional to make the shoulder on the shank straight or square, as shown, or conical or curved to conform to the countersink.

As already intimated, the invention is ap- 10o plicable to other than open-faced buttons, and this statement is deemed sufficient to inelude as within the invention closed-face buttons and buttons made with an integral shank and also buttons made with applied Shanks.

That I claim is- A tack-fastened button, composed of a button-head having a hub 01' shank in which is an opening for the engagement of the fasiening, which opening is surrounded by a face- Wal'd oountersink7 and a fastening composed of a self-entering pointed tack having its shank provided with a shoulder adapted to rest within the oountersink, and also having a point, of less diameter than the shoulder, adapted to pass through the opening in the hub to carry the shoulder up to and Within 15 the oountersink, the said point being adapted and designed to be upset Within said hub and against the faeewaid portion of the countersink, thereby iirmly and squarely to secure the button-head between said shouldei1 and zo 

